Good incentive, good cause The 165 million kroner – half of which will be obtained via EU grants – is expected to buy up about 2,500 hectares of land and be part of the government’s Narturplan Danmark (Nature Plan Denmark), which will be unveiled in the near future.

Beginning this year, the nature authorities Naturstyrelsen will actively contact land owners to see if they have land that they may want to give back to nature.

“Financial incentives await the farmers who have a green disposition and keep their ploughs off the thin and low-lying ground,” Dan Jørgensen, the food minister, said.